[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 75 (Friday, April 18, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19108-19109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10052]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-327-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

April 14, 1997.
    Take notice that on April 4, 1997, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso), Post Office Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed a request with 
the Commission in Docket No. CP97-327-000, pursuant to Sections 
157.205, and 157.216(b) of the Commission's Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA) for authorization to abandon natural gas service 
to certain delivery points (meters and/or taps) located in Texas and 
Oklahoma, authorized in blanket certificate issued in Docket Nos. CP82-
435-000 and CP88-433-000, all as more fully set forth in the request on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    El Paso proposes to abandon delivery points used for the 
transportation and delivery of natural gas to WESTCO Gas, Inc. 
(WESTCO). El Paso states that WESTCO owns and operates facilities for 
the distribution, transportation, and sale of natural gas to consumers 
situated in Gray, Wheeler, Donley, and Collingsworth Counties, Texas 
and Beckham Country, Oklahoma. WESTCO has ultimately succeeded to the 
interests and properties of Rimrock Gas Company (Rimrock).
    El Paso further states that it received authorization for the 
construction of certain delivery points and the sale for resale of 
natural gas to Rimrock, by order issued June 28, 1968 in Docket No. 
CP68-224. Additional delivery points were added pursuant to orders 
issued August 21, 1969 and May 8, 1980 in Docket Nos. CP69-23 (42 FPC 
Para. 562) and CP80-129 (11 FERC Para. 61,147), respectively. These 
facilities were required by El Paso to facilitate the delivery ad sale 
of natural gas from its interstate transmission pipeline system to 
Rimrock for resale to various community and irrigation customers.
    The delivery point facilities were constructed on existing 
nonjurisdictional well-tie and lateral gathering lines in El Paso's 
Panoma and South Zybach Gathering Systems. El Paso's Panoma Gathering 
System is located in Texas in the counties of Gray, Donley, 
Collingsworth, and Wheeler. El Paso's South Zybach Gathering system is 
located, in part, in Beckham County, Oklahoma. El Paso further states 
that effective April 1, 1988, El Paso sold the Panoma Gathering System 
facilities, on which these delivery point facilities in Texas are 
located, to Meridian Oil, Inc. (Meridian). Effective January 1, 1996, 
El Paso transferred the South Zybach Gathering System facilities, on 
which one delivery point in Beckham County, Oklahoma is located, to El 
Paso Field Services Company (Field Services). To facilitate the 
delivery of gas, Meridian and Field Services have continued to provide 
deliveries to WESTCO on El Paso's behalf. Although El Paso abandoned 
the facilities serving WESTCO, El Paso retained the certificate 
authorization permitting WESTCO, El Paso retained the certificate 
authorization permitting the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas 
to WESTCO for resale to the various consumers in the described areas.
    El Paso also states that El Paso and WESTCO are parties to a 
Transportation Service Agreement dated August 7, 1991 (TSA) providing 
for the firm transportation of WESTCO's full requirements of natural 
gas for delivery to various residential and irrigation consumers in the 
States of Texas and Oklahoma.
    WESTCO has informed El Paso that it has obtained gas supply and 
transportation services for the delivery points in the Panoma Gathering 
System in Texas from Hunter Gas Gathering, Inc. Gas supply and 
transportation services for the delivery point in the South Zybach 
Gathering System in Beckham County, Oklahoma would be provided by El 
Paso Gas Marketing Company and Field Services, respectively. 
Accordingly, El Paso

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proposes to abandon service at these delivery point facilities.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after the 
Commission has issued this notice, file pursuant to Rule 214 of the 
Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to intervene or 
notice of intervention and pursuant to Sec. 157.205 of the Regulations 
under the NGA (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the request. If no protest 
is filed within the allowed time, the proposed activity shall be deemed 
to be authorized effective the day after the time allowed for filing a 
protest. If a protest is filed and not withdrawn within 30 days after 
the time allowed for filing a protest, the instant request shall be 
treated as an application for authorization pursuant to Section 7 of 
the NGA.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-10052 Filed 4-17-97; 8:45 am]
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